Day: May 3, 2011

The Lisbon-based Portugese distributor Zon Lusomundo Audiovisuais had scheduled a Thursday, May 5th screening of Terrence Malick‘s The Tree of Life. This would have been yet another violation of the Cannes Film Festival exclusivity assumption. Portugese journalists getting a looksee two days from now would have meant reviews written in advance of Cannes and in all likelihood tweets and whatnot appearing prior to the big unveiling.

But this morning I heard from a Lisbon-based journalist friend who said that “I’ve just received news of the cancellation of our screening by ‘international imposition’. According to the Portuguese distributor, they’ve just received information today that all screenings must happen after May 17th.” I presume this means that The Tree of Life will screen at the Cannes Film Festival on this date. Or one day earlier.

ABCNews.com’s Jake Tapper is reporting “top source” White House information that President Obama and his team are discussing the possibility of releasing a photograph of Osama bin Laden‘s bullet-riddled corpse later today.

(l.) the corpse of Moe Green in Francis Coppola’s The Godfather; (r.) one-eyed Bugsy Siegel on the couch after his 1947 murder.

“The photograph, according to sources who have seen it, is bloody and gruesome with a bullet wound to his head above his left eye,” Tapper writes.

Wait…above the left eye? I read yesterday that OBL was hit dead smack through the eye like Moe Green and Bugsy Siegel. Have we been lied to again?

You need to prove to the skeptics that Osama bin Laden is dead-dead-dead with the above-described photo (sharply focused, radiant red color, brightly lit), with video of his body taken after the killing, with video of the funeral at sea, with print-outs of the DNA proof…with everything.